Portable External Drive, recomendation please

[Becko]

Since not all Portable External Drives are Mac compatible, I need to ask for your advise,

Any 250gb or 320gb will be ok, of course something high quality, and compact as well.

Thanks a lot.

 

[circularforward]

LaCie Rugged. It has FW and USB 2.0.

 

[plinden]

I've just ordered a Mercury On-the-go, triple interface, 500GB. I haven't got it yet, so can't tell you how good it is, but although it won't win any beauty contests, it's had good reviews.

 

[GGJstudios]

Since not all Portable External Drives are Mac compatible, I need to ask for your advise,

All portable external drives ARE Mac-compatible.

Mac Guide on External Hard Drives

Any external hard drive will work with PCs or Macs, as long as the connectors are there (Firewire, USB, etc.) It doesn't matter how the drive is formatted out of the box, since you can re-format any way you like. Formatting in HFS (Mac OS Extended) or FAT32 or NTFS-3G can be done with the Mac OS X Disk Utility.

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

HFS

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
• To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer

Searching the forum with MRoogle will usually find answers to most of your questions:

http://guides.macrumors.com/External_Hard_Drives

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[AppleCode]

LaCie 500GB Starck Mobile Hard Drive
Most Hard Drives should work with Macs you just need to format is for Mac os extended journaled in Disk Utility.

 

[cube]

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/EliteALmini/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB

 

[NCW]

this was just dropped off from newegg, seems to work perfectly, mounted up right away

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...442&cm_re=freeagent_go-_-22-148-442-_-Product

 

[Becko]

Thank you all very much for your replies and time.

I will made my research with the information provided.

Thanks again =)

 

[mangrove]

Since not all Portable External Drives are Mac compatible, I need to ask for your advise,

Any 250gb or 320gb will be ok, of course something high quality, and compact as well.

Thanks a lot.

Just format your drive and it's compatible with your Mac. If your Mac does not recognize the drive it asks if you want to initialize it and off you go-its done in a just a few minutes.

Get a FW800 if it works with your Mac. They are faster by far. I have more than one, but the LaCie Rugged 500GB FW800 7200rpm is TERRIFIC! and portable. Even the Apple store Genius bar uses this type near me.

Give it a study.